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AFRICOM, NATO and the EU
[PDF file]: […] protected them all – the previous John Major Government granted al-Liby asylum in 1995. In that year, al-Liby’s LIFG joined forces with the Qatada-Hamza-linked GIA. The s tory given to the authorised media by the vested intelligence agencies is that Mokhtar Belmokhtar was the new bin Laden, nicknamed ‘the uncatchable’ by French intelligence (Algeria […]
Blair and Israel
When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed
[…] MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen London: Fourth Estate, 2009, £18.99 Decadeitis, the division of his tory into decades for media marketing purposes – ‘roaring twenties’, ‘swinging sixties’ – irritates serious historians; but in the case of the 1970s it does make a […]
Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?
[PDF file]: […] of Asil Nadir. Mates was a poll tax rebel and a key figure in the removal of Margaret Thatcher. He had given a watch to Nadir, a Tory donor, engraved, ‘Don’t let the buggers get you down’. Mates was a defence witness at Nadir’s 2012 trial and later last year, when he was runner-up […]
Climbing the Bookshelves
Apocryphylia
[PDF file]: […] market right: elected to Scarborough Town Council in 1950; a couple of failed tilts at Westminster before securing Cleveland in Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good’ vic tory in ’59; losing the seat in 1964; returning – in a very close result – as MP for Brighouse and Spenborough in 1970; losing again in […]
Brexit: an accident waiting to happen
[PDF file]: […] casual dismissal and degradation of politicians and politics generally. Electoral legitimacy The British Parliamentary system is designed to reflect the predominance of two adversarial parties: initially Whig/ Tory then Liberal/Conservative and latterly Labour/Conservative.1 After the franchise was extended in 1918 to create a true mass electorate, and other possibilities emerged, this was not especially […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] Consulting Group. Cameron promoted Javid, who was first elected as Conservative MP in May 2010, to economic secretary to the Treasury, and Clark, who has been a Tory MP since 2005, to the role of financial secretary to the Treasury. Most significantly, however Cameron appointed Deighton, who isn’t even an elected politician, as commercial […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] the Soviets on his trips behind the Iron Curtain – and had done so before Golitsyn’s defection – but they never found any evidence. This Golitsyn s tory raises the interesting question about what counts as being an informer or an agent. Say that on one 2 Miller was one of a number of […]